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Cultural differences and English learning Language?and culture are interrelated, interaction and mutual checks. Language is a part of culture, and language difference is culture difference essentially. One should also learn the culture of the natives so as to get into acculturation while learning a language. Generally, people are accustomed to use the thinking pattern and culture of their first language to replace the blind spot of the English information, and lead to half the result with twice the effort when they are learning English. In fact, one cannot learn English well until he really understands the cultural connotation of this language. Cultural differences between English and Chinese The choosing of words Because of the culture background difference of each nation, we usually choose different words when we are expressing a same notion. For example, the westerns usually describe a mountain of people with the phrase of “It was packed like sardines.” while Chinese people prefer to say “It likes a pan of porridge.”(乱的像一锅粥). The manner of greeting The manner of greeting differs from the background of geography，history，habit and so on. English speaking countries are mostly located in the northwestern of Europe, and are surrounded by water; the weather is changing constantly, and often rains, so that people get costumed to greeting each other with “What’s the weather like today?” or “lovely weather, isn’t it?” And in China, food is the first important necessity due to the history, so people always begin their talk with “吃了吗？” So the foreigners always feel strange when some Chinese ask them “Have you eaten yet?” Appellation The appellation of China is greatly affected by social structure, moral tradition, blood, religion, so it is much more complicated than western country. It always makes Chinese feel confused about two people’s relationship just with one word. Take the word “aunt” for example, it is difficult to find out it represent “the sister of his fat